Councilor Craig Dirksen

Metro Council District 3

News

The 35-member Transportation Funding Task Force, or TF2, will spend the next 15 months identifying proposals for a potential November 2020 ballot measure to fund transportation improvements in greater Portland.

Metropolitan areas across the country are exploring ways to be more informed about the economy as they make decisions and investments on land use, transportation, etc. The greater Portland region is doing so as the first in the country to use a place-based economic development approach like the Economic Value Atlas.

In the first cycle of the three-year Investment and Innovation grants program, Metro is providing nearly $2.5 million to local businesses and nonprofit organizations to reduce waste in the greater Portland region and help generate more benefits from the area’s garbage and recycling system.

There are 19 specific goals and 105 related action items found in the draft 2030 Regional Waste Plan. Anyone who lives in greater Portland can read and comment on it before it’s finalized and presented to the Metro Council for adoption.

Whether your roots in the region run generations deep or you moved to Oregon last week, you have your own reasons for loving this place – and Metro wants to keep it that way. Help shape the future of the greater Portland region and discover tools, services and places that make life better today.